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Monday, January 24, 2011

People With No Names - The Undocumented #55

This 11'x14" oil on canvas depicts a father who I met at the Comedor in Nogales, Mexico. He was picked up walking across the desert at night (in below freezing temperatures), and deported. He is wrapped in a large moving van sort of blanket as he shows me a photo of his toddler daughter who lives in the U.S. with his wife. Both his wife and daughter are U.S. citizens and the small family has been living and working productively in the U.S for years. Because he was unsuccessful returning to his wife, she has been forced to move in with her mother in California. He does not know when he will see his family again.

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I am interested in the quotidian mysteries of life...observing and noting in my work the very stuff in our lives that is daily and ordinary. As Merriam-Webster defines quotidian: occurring every day; belonging to every day; commonplace, ordinary. I want to be quiet...and look for the lessons to be learned.